species while sweeping the grassy floor of high pine land 

 at Columbia, So. Car., Aug. 18, 1919. Mr. F. M. Hull has 

 sent the writer a series collected by himself at Kingsville, 

 Texas, during June and July, 1921. 



Dictyophora recurva METCALF 

 (1923 Jr. of the Elisha Mitchell Soc., Vol. 38, p. 174). 



This species has been only recently described by Met- 

 calf from a pair of specimens collected at Southern Pines, 

 North Carolina, by A..H. Manee. The original description 

 is here given. 



"This species may be distinguished from Dictyophora microrhina 

 Walker, to which it is closely related, by the more robust cephalic 

 process which is parallel-sided and not tapering as in D. microrhina 

 and the genital characters are different. 



Vertex more than three times as long as broad, nearly parallel- 

 sided and not much narrowed toward the apex; median carina 

 extending from base to apex; genae with a median carina from the 

 eye, almost to the apex; frons rather broad; clypeal expansion very 

 slight; intermediate carinae more widely separated than in D. 'micro- 

 rhina; fore wings very finely reticulate; female pygofers much longer 

 and more slender than in D. microrhina, not so deeply curved and not 

 as much constricted at the base; ovipositors slightly exceeding the 

 pygofers with small teeth; subanal plate parallel-sided, reflexed 

 border narrow; male plates rather long, blunt at the tip, slightly 

 exceeded by the anal plate. 



Color: Grass green; fore and middle tibiae and apical segment 

 of the labium suffused with scarlet red; tip of the labium and of the 

 tarsal claws only, black. 



Length, apex of vertex to apex of abdomen, 11-12 mm.; tip of wing 

 14-15 mm.; wing expanse 24-25 mm." 



Dictyophora florens STAL 

 (1861 Bidr. Rio Jan. Hemip., ii, p. 64). 



This is a neotropical species, definitely recorded in the 

 United States only from Kansas. 



Distinguished at once by its very short vertex and its 

 wide front with the carinae meeting in an obtuse angle 

 and being tinged with black just before and at their point 

 of meeting. 



Body a bright grass-green. Vertex a little longer than its basal 

 width, the median carina percurrent. Frons broad, the margins 

 strongly reflexed and a little expanded before the eyes and next the 



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